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Jun Ee Tan
Jun Ee Tan

Reputation: 41

Display base64 image from database

Is there something wrong with my code? I am asking because I failed to display the image in my browser. I have tried to decode the base64 image into png but I'm still not able to display the image. My URL format as below: data:image/jpeg;base64,iVBORw0kGgoAAAANSUhgAAAeAA...

My php code 

    //Connect to database
    mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db("studioassessor_01") or die (mysql_error());

    $sql = "SELECT * FROM frame";
    $result = mysql_query($sql);

    if($result == FALSE){
       die(mysql_error());
    }

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){

        header("Content-type: image/png");
        echo '<img src="data:image/png;base64,' . base64_decode($row['url']) . '" />';

   }

After I have test for many rounds, I found that there is something wrong to my request header part in ajax scripting. The request header had changed my base 64 string value to another value.

            function saveIt(){

                var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

                xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
                    if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
                        alert("Save successfully!");
                    }
                }

                var value1 = document.getElementById("url").value ;
                var value2 = document.getElementById("time").value;
                var value3 = document.getElementById("note").value;

                xmlhttp.open("POST", "insertFrame.php", true);
                xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type:image/png","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
                xmlhttp.send("url="+ value1 + "&time=" + value2 + "&note=" + value3);

            }

So, may I ask again what should i do for the xmlhttp.setRequestHeaderPart?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8246

Answers (1)

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360602

Yes, you're decoding the base64 data into raw binary, but telling the browser that it's still base64. That's not going to work.

echo '<img src="data:image/png;base64,' . $row['url'] . '" />';

should be all you need. no decode call at all. Note that you couldn't really dump the raw binary into a data uri, even if you wanted to - it will randomly (and naturally) contain " and other html meta-characters, introducing html injection problems. you'd have to htmlspecialchars() the binary string, and then figure out if there's an encoding type raw-binary-with-html-characters-escaped

Upvotes: 1

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